Most Recent Role: Himself on The Merv Griffin Show
Alias Name(s): François Truffaut
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Paris, France
Birthday: 2-6-1932
Birth Name: Francois Truffaut
Alias Name(s): François Truffaut
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Paris, France
Birthday: 2-6-1932
Birth Name: Francois Truffaut
Francois Truffaut is considered by some to be the greatest film director to come from France. Born in Paris in 1932, Truffaut found a fondness for film at an early age. Leading the "New Wave" of cinema in the late 1950's/early 1960's, he came to prominence with the film "The 400 Blows," starring his actor of choice, Jean-Pierre Leaud. Amongst the other great films he directed were...
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March 20, 1963
Wednesday 20 March 1963 on Syndicated
Merv's guests are Elsa Lanchester, Basil Rathbone, Francois Truffaut, George Frazier and Leon Bibb.
The young Antoine Doinel in The 400 Blows was not so loosely based on Truffaut's youthful self, and Doinel's release from military prison at the beginning of Stolen Kisses echoes Truffaut's own imprisonment for attempted desertion. Film critic Andre Bazin was among those who engineered his release from both prison and the military in 1952.
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Francois Truffaut: I make films that I would like to have seen when I was a young man.
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Francois Truffaut: Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.
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